{"id":26672,"date":"2018-12-08T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=26672"},"modified":"2018-12-08T03:16:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T09:16:46","slug":"humane-society-of-clarksville-montgomery-county-announces-yard-sale-donations-needed-for-precious-friends-building-renovation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/12\/08\/humane-society-of-clarksville-montgomery-county-announces-yard-sale-donations-needed-for-precious-friends-building-renovation-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Humane Society of Clarksville-Montgomery County announces Yard Sale Donations Needed for Precious Friends Building Renovation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Humane Society of Clarksville-Montgomery County<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-319792\" title=\"Humane Society of Clarksville-Montgomery County\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Humane-Society-of-Clarksville-Montgomery-County.jpg\" alt=\"Humane Society of Clarksville-Montgomery County\" width=\"260\" height=\"52\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Executive Directors, board members and volunteers from Precious Friends Puppy Rescue and the Humane Society of Clarksville-Montgomery County are joining forces to prepare a giant indoor Yard Sale at a building recently donated by Singletary Construction located at 20 Barker Street (off Riverside Drive).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_440032\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Precious-Friends-Puppy-Rescue-Yard-Sale.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440032\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-440032\" title=\"Precious Friends Puppy Rescue Yard Sale to be held December 14th-16th.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Precious-Friends-Puppy-Rescue-Yard-Sale-480x301.jpg\" alt=\"Precious Friends Puppy Rescue Yard Sale to be held December 14th-16th.\" width=\"480\" height=\"301\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-440032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Precious Friends Puppy Rescue Yard Sale to be held December 14th-16th.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Funds are being raised for building renovations at the new location, which will serve as the future home of Precious Friends Puppy Rescue, a non-profit organization that has been rescuing puppies in the Clarksville community since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>The sale will be held Friday December 14th from 8:00am-4:00pm, Saturday December 15th from 8:00am-4:00pm, and Sunday December 16th from 11:00am-3:00pm at the Barker Street location.<\/p>\n<p>Donations of items in clean, good working condition are being collected through Monday, December 10th daily from 11:00am-3:00pm. To schedule a different drop off time, donors are encouraged to email <a href=\"mailto:humanesociety@clarksville.com\">humanesociety@clarksville.com<\/a> and not leave items unattended outside of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Precious Friends is undergoing reorganization after receiving news that long-time funding from North Shore Animal League America (NSALA) would terminate at the end of this year in addition to notice of a rent increase.<\/p>\n<p>When Humane Society Executive Director Amy Shaver heard that Precious Friends was in trouble, she reached out to fellow animal lovers to see if a core group could be formed to save the organization. A new leadership board was formed and are working alongside Precious Friends Director, Ariane Duckett, to continue the legacy started 26 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the reorganization effort, Precious Friends plans to greatly increase local adoptions that will expand to include the rescue and adoption of kittens in addition to puppies.<\/p>\n<p>A Sneak-Peek VIP Sale will be held on Thursday, December 13th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Tickets are available in advance for just $10.00 each at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvillehumanesociety.org\/events\" >www.clarksvillehumanesociety.org\/events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Financial contributions towards building renovations can be made at that link, too. VIP ticket holders will be entered in a drawing to win a $50.00 gift card to Petsmart, and VIP night will also include silent auction, refreshments, and a tour showing off future shelter plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humane Society of Clarksville-Montgomery County Clarksville, TN &#8211; Executive Directors, board members and volunteers from Precious Friends Puppy Rescue and the Humane Society of Clarksville-Montgomery County are joining forces to prepare a giant indoor Yard Sale at a building recently donated by Singletary Construction located at 20 Barker Street (off Riverside Drive).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[7167,32960,32959,825,5921,14840,1997,32958],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6Wc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26673,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26672\/revisions\/26673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}